The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 205

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 205
A second life begins.
Han Seong-ye found herself back at the scene where she rescued young Choi Woo-jin again—the moment when a traffic police officer suddenly encountered a dungeon.
“Officer?”
This time, she knew how to save Choi Woo-jin.
Han Seong-ye entered the dungeon far more quickly.
She couldn’t save Choi Woo-jin’s parents, but at least the vehicle hadn’t been driven over the cliff’s edge yet.
She smashed the front windshield with a hammer pulled from the patrol car and pulled Choi Woo-jin out.
“It’s okay. Everything will be fine.”
Han Seong-ye spoke to Choi Woo-jin as if speaking to herself.
Even as she did, she unconsciously examined the space above Choi Woo-jin’s head.
What kind of status window would appear for this child, she wondered.
But no status window appeared above Choi Woo-jin’s head.
Han Seong-ye first identified the traitor within the Hunter Investigation Unit.
“I had no choice. What would someone like me know? I just… I only smuggled out some weapons.”
At that point, Cha Jeon-hyeok wasn’t the traitor who contributed to Lee Yu-ji’s death, but it didn’t matter.
Han Seong-ye dug up all his corruption and excised him from the narrative.
When she removed him, such a status window appeared above his head.
A minor villain who brings trials to the protagonist
Every time someone drops out of this narrative, such a window appears.
Han Seong-ye grasped the mechanism of this story.
And simultaneously, I—the reader—understood why this was the “prologue to Part 2.”
Part 2 of “A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength.”
It was revealing to me, the reader, how this world operates while Part 2 simultaneously begins.
‘This is driving me insane, truly.’
What drove me most insane was Mother’s appearance, which seemed somehow more exhausted than before.
In the previous life, Mother witnessed not only me but also her partner Pee So-won fail to wake from a coma.
Kwon Ik-seong was found in the reservoir, and Captain Hong was demoted.
My father, Lee Do-young, went to prison on fabricated evidence while helping Mother.
Mother, knowing their fates, saw the status windows that appeared above their heads each time.
A supporting character who gives her heart to the protagonist
A supporting character with a good heart
A typical helper of the protagonist
Family of the protagonist
And in this life, she had done everything she could to save this world so they would no longer die as supporting characters.
But I knew where that effort would lead.
In this life, Mother investigated Choi Woo-jin instead of the Hunter Management Bureau Chief.
Choi Woo-jin, who had no status window, was someone unrelated to Mother.
She thought he at least wouldn’t be put in danger under some label like “supporting character” or “helper.”
Besides, Choi Woo-jin recognized Mother as his “lifesaver” and helped her as much as he could.
Through Choi Se-a, who harbored resentment toward Choi Jun-gu, I shook the Hunter Association to its core and prevented them from enacting laws to protect hunters. I exposed the fabricated records of those hunters and had Choi Jun-gu arrested.
However, before the decisive evidence could reach the Hunter Investigation Unit, Pee So-won, who was carrying it, was struck by a car.
When she returned as a cold corpse, a window appeared above her head.
A supporting character the protagonist cares for
It was no different from my previous life.
After Choi Jun-gu was released due to insufficient evidence, Kwon Ik-seong fell victim to absurd false accusations and began facing investigation.
A supporting character with a good heart
Captain Hong was stabbed to death while trying to help Pee So-won, who was nearly killed by an assassin sent by Choi Jun-gu.
The protagonist’s typical helper
Lee Do-young went to the countryside with Lee Yu-ji and Lee Yu-gyeom, where he ‘suffered’ asphyxiation disguised as a gas leak.
All three became cold corpses.
A supporting character meant to bring trials to the protagonist
Han Seong-ye realized it then.
I was not the right person to become the protagonist.
I had no power to save this world, and it was only right that I live an ordinary life as I always had.
Thus, the third cycle began.
This time, I lived an ordinary life.
Dressed in a traffic police uniform, I watched the dungeon break unfold.
I entered the dungeon.
But this time, I was too late, and I turned away from Choi Woo-jin.
A window appeared above the closed wall.
The villain’s associate
Yes. This is right.
Listening to the screams of a young boy, Han Seong-ye comforted herself.
And I lived on.
Pretending not to notice as Choi Jun-gu, who had taken everything most precious to me, was treated as a hero on television.
Yet disaster found her nonetheless.
Captain Hong came looking for Han Seong-ye.
“We’re investigating the dungeon break that occurred in Incheon. Since you’re the only witness, I came to see if you noticed anything unusual.”
Seeing Pee So-won beside Captain Hong, her eyes sparkling brightly, Han Seong-ye shook her head.
“Well, I didn’t see much.”
She betrayed herself.
She abandoned the person she once was—the one who had sworn to save people, to dedicate herself to the nation and society.
Yet there were those who did not give up.
Captain Hong pursued the dungeon break to the very end and died.
The protagonist’s typical helper → Extra 1
Pee So-won as well.
A supporting character the protagonist cares for → Extra 2
Kwon Ik-seong testified at a hearing and died under mysterious circumstances.
Gwon Ik-sung testified at the hearing and died under mysterious circumstances.
Supporting Character with a Good Heart → Extra 3
Everything remained the same.
Lee Do-young died while uncovering corruption in Incheon.
It was something I hadn’t known in my first and second lives.
I didn’t know that Lee Do-young—that he never let go of that concept of “justice” I had ultimately abandoned.
I only wanted to save him, overlooking the fact that he was not merely a supporting character but the protagonist of his own life.
The Protagonist’s Family 1
I knew it didn’t end there.
After Lee Do-young’s death, Lee Yu-ji attempted to report the coach who had sexually harassed her teammate, but instead was branded as the athlete who struck a fellow player, and she shamefully retired from her athletic career.
Lee Yu-ji, smiling as if it were fine, took the police entrance exam.
“Why… do you want to become a police officer?”
Han Seong-ye was anxious.
Yet she couldn’t stop her daughter.
Because she was well aware of the psychiatric medication envelopes accumulating in Lee Yu-ji’s desk drawer.
“I’m a fourth-degree black belt in Taekwondo anyway. I can get hired right away as a special recruit!”
“Yu-ji—”
“And I like using my body, don’t I? If I become a detective, I can run around, and how great would that be.”
Lee Yu-ji, who answered so brightly, eventually became a detective.
Han Seong-ye realized once more.
Lee Yu-ji was the protagonist of her own world.
No matter how much Han Seong-ye tried to stop her, Lee Yu-ji would never let go of her father’s unjust death.
And as expected, Lee Yu-ji pursued the truth behind Lee Do-young’s wrongful death.
And in the end, she met the same fate as Lee Do-young.
The Protagonist’s Family 2
Even though I knew this would happen.
Han Seong-ye swallowed her sobs as she looked at Lee Yu-ji’s pallid face.
Lee Yu-ji’s legs were twisted in a grotesque shape.
“While chasing the criminal, she… fell from such a high floor that she likely died instantly. I’m not sure if this brings any comfort.”
I struggled to compose my grief-stricken mind.
Simply living a life where I am not the protagonist doesn’t break this curse.
The Villain’s Henchman
That window that appeared above the vanishing Choi Woo-jin came to mind.
The villain.
A villain exists in this world.
And that is Choi Jun-gu.
Then there is only one way to prevent all these deaths.
I must eliminate this world’s villain.
The one who can eliminate that villain is not me.
Then…
Who must become the protagonist.
Will you use the skill ‘Eternal Return’?
Y/N
!Warning!
If you select the N button, ‘Protagonist of This World’ will be transferred to another person.
Han Seong-ye pressed the Y button once more.

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“Hah… hah…”
Ragged breaths escaped from my body as it lay crumpled on the ground.
Without thinking, I checked my legs first.
‘Are they there?’
My legs were there.
Confirming that, I pushed myself up as if possessed by something.
No, I tried to rise, then collapsed back down again.
I exhaled roughly and surveyed my surroundings.
‘Ik-seong.’
Only then did my thoughts turn to Ik-seong.
He might be trapped in the car.
But there was no car—only thick fog stretched before my eyes.
My entire body ached as though shattered into pieces.
Even with an F-rank body, how could it hurt this much?
Something was wrong.
I reached out and my hand touched a brick wall.
“Hah… hah…”
I leaned my body against that wall and got to my feet.
Then I looked up at the wall.
Though I was shrouded in fog so thick I couldn’t see an inch ahead, I could at least make out the bronze plaque mounted on the wall above.
Heaven Orphanage
XX County XX Town 11-10

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